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that's not the real stephen colbert? i'm shocked to hear that. we didn't know that here in nevada. >> right. >> but seriously, the real problem is what you know. people hold congress in such disrepute already and think it's a joke and then they see steven colbert go before congress in character and make these comments, i can't see how that helps the democrats. they can say they're bringing a higher profile to a big issue, but people see it as a comedy show. >> here's even more of stephen colbert, vaughn. take a listen. >> i've got to ask, why isn't the government doing anything? maybe this ad jobs bill would help. i don't know. like most members of congress, i haven't read it. >> i guess vaughn, what i don't understand is, look, stephen colbert know who he is. he knew what he was doing and he certainly didn't make any pretense he was going to be anything other than what he was. why were all those members of congress sitting there? why didn't they leave? we heard conyers saying that. what about the republicans? >> conyers was sort of giving the ea
that's not the real stephen colbert? i'm shocked to hear that. we didn't know that here in nevada. >> right. >> but seriously, the real problem is what you know. people hold congress in such disrepute already and think it's a joke and then they see steven colbert go before congress in character and make these comments, i can't see how that helps the democrats. they can say they're bringing a higher profile to a big issue, but people see it as a comedy show. >> here's even more...
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that is exactly what jon stewart and stephen colbert are hoping for. you know, they know where the joke is. if that side of the world doesn't get it, that's fine with them. >> stewart showed some signs he made for the crowd. let's listen. >> we're going to have signs for you down there. if you don't have time, of course, you can bring your own, but here's a quick one. i disagree with you, but i'm pretty sure you're not hitler. how about this for dissatisfying yet nonidea logical among us. got confidence. you know, i noticed there's a lot of conspiracy rally stuff going on at these things. here's one. 9/11 was an outside job. perhaps this one is more to the point. i am not afraid of muslims, tea partiers, socialists, immigrants, gun owners, gays, but i am kind of scared of spiders. >> you know, i don't know how do you mix satire with emotion. i think he's going to be funny as hell down there, but suppose he gives us the best hour of the best material, then what? do people just laugh and go home? where's the emotion? is he going to say something passiona
that is exactly what jon stewart and stephen colbert are hoping for. you know, they know where the joke is. if that side of the world doesn't get it, that's fine with them. >> stewart showed some signs he made for the crowd. let's listen. >> we're going to have signs for you down there. if you don't have time, of course, you can bring your own, but here's a quick one. i disagree with you, but i'm pretty sure you're not hitler. how about this for dissatisfying yet nonidea logical...
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comedian stephen colbert testifies before congress as his alter ego. he certainly brought a few laughs, but did he help the migrant worker cause. michael smerconish will join me in the debate about this. >>> and developing now, 25 top executives from one of the nation's biggest banks which got billions in government bailout money is getting multi-million dollar bonuses. we'll see what dylan ratigan has to say about it. >>> now developing new details on the dramatic early bank robbery near miami, florida. the fbi says robbers kidnapped a bank teller from his home, strapped what was believe be a bomb to his chest, and used him to steal bank out of the bank of amica branch in the city. >> once
comedian stephen colbert testifies before congress as his alter ego. he certainly brought a few laughs, but did he help the migrant worker cause. michael smerconish will join me in the debate about this. >>> and developing now, 25 top executives from one of the nation's biggest banks which got billions in government bailout money is getting multi-million dollar bonuses. we'll see what dylan ratigan has to say about it. >>> now developing new details on the dramatic early bank...
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. >>> supreme court justice stephen briar opens bup about what it is like behind the scenes of the supreme court. first, shuttle diplomacy. it has nothing to do with nasa nor the shuttle between washington and new york. it's when a diplomat is traveling back and forth between two different parties. the u.s. was able to get two sides to actually agree to face to face negotiations. today in egypt, one of those subtle diplomacy states and hillary clinton is mediating a second round of those talks. >> she shuttled herself over there. >> our produce wir will be a go between. >> we always get along. send us an e-mail. ♪ [ upbeat instrumental ] [ rattling ] [ gasps ] [ rattling ] [ laughing ] [ announcer ] close enough just isn't good enough. - if your car is in an accident, - [ laughing continues ] make sure it's repaired with the right replacement parts. take the scary out of life with travelers. call or click now for an agent or quote. >>> in an era where it only takes a cell phone to bring a caught on camera moment, first in california meg whitman is trying to use bill clinton as a surrogat
. >>> supreme court justice stephen briar opens bup about what it is like behind the scenes of the supreme court. first, shuttle diplomacy. it has nothing to do with nasa nor the shuttle between washington and new york. it's when a diplomat is traveling back and forth between two different parties. the u.s. was able to get two sides to actually agree to face to face negotiations. today in egypt, one of those subtle diplomacy states and hillary clinton is mediating a second round of...
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. >>> has stephen colbert delivered his last joke on capitol hill? testimony from the comedian may have banned him from life. >>> a day after her first gubernatorial debate, meg whitman confronts a political firestorm after allegations she knowingly employed an illegal immigrant. first we're bracing for severe weather. here is bill karins with the latest. >> as advertised, a rough morning commute. already have flash flood warnings around d.c. tornado watch from philadelphia southward. new york city not looking pretty. this picture behind me in times square shows it. heavy in and tropical downpours in the city. there's a look at times square. only going to get worse as we go through out the day. this is a 24-hour event. the storm system is located in the carolinas and all of the moisture is coming straight up like this. it's going to rush all the way through the heavy populated areas especially from new york city south wards down through d.c. i mentioned the tornado watch. we do have a tornado warning just south of virginia beach there. just south int
. >>> has stephen colbert delivered his last joke on capitol hill? testimony from the comedian may have banned him from life. >>> a day after her first gubernatorial debate, meg whitman confronts a political firestorm after allegations she knowingly employed an illegal immigrant. first we're bracing for severe weather. here is bill karins with the latest. >> as advertised, a rough morning commute. already have flash flood warnings around d.c. tornado watch from...
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. >> and about satirist stephen colbert who was invited to the hallowed halls of congress to testify about undocumented farm workers and delivered a comic parody with a comedic edge. speaker nancy pelosi thought it was just fine. her number two, not so much. >> i think his testimony was not appropriate. i think it was an embarrassment for mr. colbert more than the house. >> well, he was called by the democratic chair of the subcommittee. >> you asked me, chris, whether the testimony was appropriate. i think it was not appropriate. >> just to recap, congressman hoyer thought it was not appropriate. that is today's "sound of sunday." and just a brief correction to last sunday's program. we called army staff sergeant salvatore beginte the first living recipient of the medal of honor. we should have said the first living recipient of the medal of honor in the iraq and afghan wars. >>> up next, do you know how to spell murkowski? you may be surprised to know who didn't. ♪ [ male announcer ] every business day, bank of america lends billions of dollars, to individuals, institutions, scho
. >> and about satirist stephen colbert who was invited to the hallowed halls of congress to testify about undocumented farm workers and delivered a comic parody with a comedic edge. speaker nancy pelosi thought it was just fine. her number two, not so much. >> i think his testimony was not appropriate. i think it was an embarrassment for mr. colbert more than the house. >> well, he was called by the democratic chair of the subcommittee. >> you asked me, chris, whether...
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i think act of defiance coupled with stephen colbert. they have time for colbert they don't have time to vote on what our tax rates are going to be. >> i think it is a general trend where people in america peel that things are no in control in washington. and that the democratic congress is not managing basic stuff. something like this is sthoeuic of and you know -- symptomatic of something that is broken in the system. the fuel behind the tea party and a big year for republicans. >> sean: the president said i'm a christian by choice. he was asked, you know by somebody, why are you a christian? you are a christian contemporary singer. i can't get over this trippi. i still have a problem with reverend wright. i don't know how you sit in the pews with somebody for 10 -- i don't know how you sit in the pews with somebody for 20 years and say i have no idea. >> it is not very christian. >> sean: of me? >> yes. >> sean: i'm not a good christian. you are questioning my faith. >> when someone tells you that they -- they didn't realize it. >> se
i think act of defiance coupled with stephen colbert. they have time for colbert they don't have time to vote on what our tax rates are going to be. >> i think it is a general trend where people in america peel that things are no in control in washington. and that the democratic congress is not managing basic stuff. something like this is sthoeuic of and you know -- symptomatic of something that is broken in the system. the fuel behind the tea party and a big year for republicans....
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>> it is outrageous, especially when you consider they had time to bring in stephen colbert to deliver a stand-up before congress but they don't have time to vote on the bush tax cuts are or the estate taxes. >> sean: a little under 100 days to die so you don't have to pay the death tax. >> people are crossing their finger. >> sean: if you die december 30ers, no estate tax. if you die january 1st, as of now, 55%. >> you have barney frank shaking in his pants bringing in former president clinton. >> i don't want to think about barney frank shaking in his pants. leave his pants out of it. >> sean: ouch! you are going back to the -- >> i don't want to get personal with barney frank. >> sean: the tax foundation is running numbers, the tax hikes coming down the road, they say are eye-popping. for example, somebody with as<)é combined income $122,000, two kids income going up nearly $5,000. family of four, $45,000 a year their income going up over $2,000 if they don't move. i think was one of the greatest acts of cowardice in our lifetime, leaving town not telling us before the election whe
>> it is outrageous, especially when you consider they had time to bring in stephen colbert to deliver a stand-up before congress but they don't have time to vote on the bush tax cuts are or the estate taxes. >> sean: a little under 100 days to die so you don't have to pay the death tax. >> people are crossing their finger. >> sean: if you die december 30ers, no estate tax. if you die january 1st, as of now, 55%. >> you have barney frank shaking in his pants...
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>>> because tomorrow i, stephen colbert, will be testifying before congress. half spoken word, half dance number. now, that news made one of the friendly friends over at fox and friends so ensensed this morning that her hair nearly moved. jim? >> i mean, the idea that we're going to waste our taxpayer dollars for this guy to go up on capitol hill and we're supposed to sit there and take that? >> no, you're supposed to sit there and blow it out of proportion. read your contract. >> stephen colbert, actually testifying today in front of the house committee, illegal immigration. >> that's the gig, baby. >> apparently going to testify in character. >> people get paid a lot of money all over the world for blowing things out of proportion. we ought to try that sometime. let's try it. >> ready? >> yeah. my public tax dollars are spent going to pbs, willie, so they can have some -- is that blowing it out of proportion? >> so far so good. outrage, national scandal. >> what if i like california girls. >> katy perry? >> teenage dream, baby. >> superstar. singing the song
>>> because tomorrow i, stephen colbert, will be testifying before congress. half spoken word, half dance number. now, that news made one of the friendly friends over at fox and friends so ensensed this morning that her hair nearly moved. jim? >> i mean, the idea that we're going to waste our taxpayer dollars for this guy to go up on capitol hill and we're supposed to sit there and take that? >> no, you're supposed to sit there and blow it out of proportion. read your...
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stephen writes, real? maybe yes, maybe no. what's real si the contempt that most of us have for the way our elected officials feed at the public trough and put their interests party first ahead of ours. s.j. writes from honolulu, no, the tea party victories are the result of all the lies and propaganda is republican party has been pushing out over the last couple of years. now they have pushed their base so far to the right as to alienate most moderates and independents. we can only hope that the chicken comes home to roost in november. and harold in alaska writes it's not the boston tea party, it's more like the mat hatter's tea party, with sarah in wonderland presiding. if you want to read more on this, you'll find it on cnn.com/caffer cnn.com/caffertyfile. >>> the centers for disease control calls it an alarming insure jeptd. what the government is now doing to fight bed bugs. plus she managed a heavyweight defeat against her own party. my. that's when you find out your cut-rate insurance it ain't payin' for this. so get al
stephen writes, real? maybe yes, maybe no. what's real si the contempt that most of us have for the way our elected officials feed at the public trough and put their interests party first ahead of ours. s.j. writes from honolulu, no, the tea party victories are the result of all the lies and propaganda is republican party has been pushing out over the last couple of years. now they have pushed their base so far to the right as to alienate most moderates and independents. we can only hope that...
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what we now now after years of waiting is this crime may have taken place because one of the suspects, stephen hayes, was, quote, desperate for money. according to a connecticut police detective who interviewed hayes after the murders in july 2007. the detective testified in court today that when he interviewed hayes after the suspects had been caught leaving the petit home, he noted a strong odor of gasoline coming from hayes' body. the home was allegedly set on fire by hayes and co-defendant, so it would make sense there could have been a gasoline odor on him. also hayes showed, quote, no emotion and he remembers him being pretty quiet. >> so the guy was desperate for money, that was their plan all along, just get money? >> it seems so. according to the testimony today, the two men devised a plan to, quote, break into a house, tie some people up, grab some money and get out as fast as they can. well, we know that wasn't what happened in the end. we don't know all the details of course of what happened in that house, but we do know from police that jennifer hawke-petit was sexually assaulted
what we now now after years of waiting is this crime may have taken place because one of the suspects, stephen hayes, was, quote, desperate for money. according to a connecticut police detective who interviewed hayes after the murders in july 2007. the detective testified in court today that when he interviewed hayes after the suspects had been caught leaving the petit home, he noted a strong odor of gasoline coming from hayes' body. the home was allegedly set on fire by hayes and co-defendant,...
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. >> it's so funny, you a great story in the piece about stephen colbert telling his wife their friend, jon stewart had been chosen to host "the daily show." >> she said, wait a minute, he was the quiet guy in the corner with the beard, not the funny one. what's he doing getting the show? stewart is a very smart guy. there's no magic formula as he says. he's worked hard at his humor, getting booed off stage in all the standard sort of start-up things. he lucked into a niche in some ways, "the daily show" existed before he took over as house. it wasn't nearly as political, as topical. he knew he wanted to give it some weight. but some things that have happened in the real world, many of them not funny, have given him openings. and the polarization of media, cable channels, fox obviously the biggest culprit, has given stewart a middle to both poke fun at and sort of represent in some ways. it's going to be interesting, with this rally he talked about last night, he seeing it as a piece of theater, as another goof on glenn beck and everybody else. whether he can do that and not cross the
. >> it's so funny, you a great story in the piece about stephen colbert telling his wife their friend, jon stewart had been chosen to host "the daily show." >> she said, wait a minute, he was the quiet guy in the corner with the beard, not the funny one. what's he doing getting the show? stewart is a very smart guy. there's no magic formula as he says. he's worked hard at his humor, getting booed off stage in all the standard sort of start-up things. he lucked into a...